Wheat (ZW)

Cultural wheat comes from south-west Asia, the region known as the Fertile Crescent. Wheat was one of the first domesticated crops, cultivated it at the very beginning of the Neolithic revolution. It is safe to say that ancient people could use for food growing wild wheat. In the US, it was brought only in the…

Corn (ZC)

Corn Sugar, also maize - the only member of the genus corn cultural family of grasses. In addition to cultural maize, Zea genus includes four species - Z. diploperennis, Z. perennis, Z. luxurians, Z. nicaraguensis - and three wild subspecies of Z. mays: ssp. parviglumis, ssp. mexicana and ssp. huehuetenangensis. It is believed that many…